1. Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, so Jacob said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”
2. Then he said, “Look! I’ve heard that there’s grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some grain for us there so that we’ll live and not die.”
3. So Joseph’s brothers went down, ten of them, to buy grain from Egypt.
4. But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob did not send, for he said, “An accident might happen to him.”
5. The sons of Israel went to buy grain among the others who were coming, because the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6. Now Joseph was the ruler over the land. He was the provider of grain for all the people of the earth.